Face recognition method combining SVM machine learning and scale invariant feature transform

Abstract

Facial recognition is a method to identify an individual from his image. It has attracted the intention of a large number of researchers in the field of computer vision in recent years due to its wide scope of application in several areas (health, security, robotics, biometrics...). The operation of this technology, so much in demand in today's market, is based on the extraction of features from an input image using techniques such as SIFT, SURF, LBP... and comparing them with others from another image to confirm or assert the identity of an individual. In this paper, we have performed a comparative study of a machine learning-based approach using several classification methods, applied on two face databases, which will be divided into two groups. The first one is the Train database used for the training stage of our model and the second one is the Test database, which will be used in the test phase of the model. The results of this comparison showed that the SIFT technique merged with the SVM classifier outperforms the other classifiers in terms of identification accuracy rate.